This report analyses three key sectors and their potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Using the Seba Technology Disruption Framework, the report examines probable disruptive changes in energy, transportation, and food that could ultimately drive global GHG emissions mitigation. The report identifies 8 key technologies that could eliminate over 90% of net GHG emissions worldwide within 15 years and suggests that investors, policymakers, civic leaders, and other decision-makers focus resources in direct proportion to where the fastest and most impactful opportunities lie.

The report categorises the sources of emissions into three stages of readiness: Research, Deploy, and Scale. More than 75% of global GHG emissions can be mitigated by just eight key technologies that are either already available and scalable or ready to deploy to the market. The report suggests that this provides a guide for decision-making on how to prioritise efforts to maximise mitigation benefits as soon as possible. Simultaneously, markets can play a dominant role in reducing emissions and must do so.

Investors, policymakers, civic leaders, and other decision-makers should focus their attention and resources in direct proportion to where the fastest and most impactful opportunities lie. The report suggests a focused approach to reducing emissions is better than an all-of-the-above approach, which merely divides the time, attention, and resources among a large number of different emissions reduction strategies.

The report points out that the most effective approach is to concentrate on one single strategy: deploying and scaling existing technologies to disrupt the energy, transportation, and food sectors as quickly as possible. The second and third order cascading effects of these disruptions will offer previously inconceivable opportunities for environmental restoration that goes beyond climate change, including problems such as soil and water contamination, air pollution, water shortages, deforestation, biodiversity loss, species extinction and many others. Investors, policymakers, civic leaders, and other decision-makers should make use of this opportunity to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by implementing sustainable solutions at scale.

The report raises a significant number of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues surrounding climate change, including biodiversity loss, GHG emissions, and deforestation. The report recommends a concentrated focus on deploying and scaling existing technologies to disrupt the energy, transportation, and food sectors as quickly as possible to achieve net-zero emissions targets. Such a focused approach could facilitate high impact planning while at the same time providing unprecedented opportunities for environmental restoration and sustainability in the long term.